f*ckwits, the entire roads system is full of f*ckwits
georgee
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Sorry need get this off my chest, to all the idiots steaming through red lights this morning (why can't a car just broadside them mid crossing?), almost hitting people trying to to cross (lovely chat with one pedestrian), the tool doing it with a suit hanging from the handlebars to that chunky muppet who tried to fit past me and a car waiting at lights on Friday night smacking into their wing mirror, pushed it back waved then set off through the lights. Just watch out, at one point soon I am going to shove my pump through your wheel mid flow.
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I hear you! Followed a d1ckhead on a shiny new Bianchi this morning - he went through every single red light on the Kings Road. Overtook him between each set of lights but couldn't bring myself to say anything.0
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My commute is also along the Kings rd and embankment. While there are still a number RLJers it seems to be at a lower level than earlier in the year. I think the bad press from assorted media outlets has had an effect (or am I in my own little dreamland)0
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If we're hoping for a day when we share our route with adults only I fear a long wait.
By the way I like the idea of "a suit hanging from the handlebars" - if only there were enough handlebars in the world ..."Consider the grebe..."0 -
dang65 wrote:
You know that those people are just suspended car drivers who have been forced on to bicycles while they wait for their bans to be lifted.georgee wrote:Sorry need get this off my chest, to all the idiots steaming through red lights this morning...
er no, just people riding bikes.Old hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again.
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You do get to play the High St Ken game. Just note all the bikes coming past you at the first set of red lights, then see how many of them you are ahead of by the time you reach the top end of the road. It is actually quite easy.
My moment of karma came when I was waiting at some lights and an expensive road bike squeezed between me and the car next to me - just as the lights changed to green. The car moved off and the cyclist bounced off the front wing. Luckily he was unhurt - as he landed on me.. His bike, however, had been squashed under the wheels of the car. At least he had the good grace to admit to cycling like an idiot.0 -
The fact that my house mate is a RLJ annoys me. I don't think I can persuade her that RLJ and cycling the wrong way along one way streets, is a bad idea. She's Italian, and seems to think that road laws are for motorists, not cyclists.
I was impressed by a roadie who pulled up next to me last week. I was waiting in the advance box (I was at the junction first), and a cycle came past. I though "great, an impatient t***" (they usually are, then pull away and maintain 8pmh)... then I realised with full lycra, overshoes, and probably a decent bike... he's going to be leaving me for dust at the lights... that's if he doesn't jump them.
Well, I waited there, mesmerised by a 40sec+ long trackstand. I soooooo want to be able to do that! As it was, he didn't pull away too fast. Sensible chap, what with all these RLJ cyclists around....0 -
georgee wrote:Sorry need get this off my chest, to all the idiots steaming through red lights this morning (why can't a car just broadside them mid crossing?), almost hitting people trying to to cross (lovely chat with one pedestrian), the tool doing it with a suit hanging from the handlebars to that chunky muppet who tried to fit past me and a car waiting at lights on Friday night smacking into their wing mirror, pushed it back waved then set off through the lights. Just watch out, at one point soon I am going to shove my pump through your wheel mid flow.
I know your pain, don't even start me :evil:
It's just a hill. Get over it.0 -
The shame of the RLJ is not the 'I'll do what I want mentality' but the what the driver who kills them has to carry with them for the rest of their lives as a result of RLJ stupidity. I ride and drive and I know how I would feel if someone came out of nowhere and I broadsided them. I know that I'd never forget it and would feel guilt every day afterwards.
Ordinarilly my attitutude would be to let them get on with it. If they have an acccident, so be it. But the moment you bring someone else into the equation - an unwilling participant - that changes things.0 -
I was having a bit of a gripe at work last week about the state of some of the cycle lanes in Glasgow (basically, trying to explain to my car-driving colleagues why we sometimes don't like to cycle along in the gutter with all the broken glass).
One of my workmates said, with quite some disgust, "Yeah, but I bet you're one of those tw@ts who goes straight through red lights though". I don't (I even stop at RLs on pedestrian crossings when there are clearly no pedestrians about) but there was simply no way I was going to convince him of this. He's seen so many w@nkers do it that he's now sure we all do.
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Same here - I also get tarred with that brush. It sucks and I guess it won't change as they'll always be b*ll-*nds who do this - just like they'll always be kn*bs who use their mobiles while driving.0
